Shut Up & Dance With Me!

Recital Weeks came and went quickly! This year we celebrated 55 years of Dance Image Way! 

It was a fun time being able to watch lots of little girls show off what they learned this year. All of the costumes, music and choreography was adorable in both recitals! 

Our Competition girls did awesome! I love when Recital time comes because I can just sit back and watch all the teams do the dances that we once thought would never turn out look amazing. I also feel sad watching these girls dance as well because there is always sadness that comes with knowing some will be leaving to college, drill team or cheer, other sports and millions of other things these girls are so talented with. 

It also scares me when the year ends because that means the new ideas have to start coming for next year. But this year for some reason I just wanted to hold on to all these girls for another 2 years! I am so glad that I can be apart of something that lets me share my passion for dance! But there is something I love more than just teaching, counting and begging for facials.. I love seeing these girls grow up. I love seeing them become strong, confident girls. That to me is worth more than any award, smile or perfect leaps.

After Recital Selfie!

It wouldn't be cool unless we had videos of us being goofs.

We normally do Memory Monday during the year where girls can wear there old costumes to class. 

This year we totally spaced doing it so they could wear it to Rehearsal. Well Alexa & me jumped in on the fun and wore our senior year solo costumes. Did we have to jump up and down just to put them on? Yes!

At the end of the Senior Recitals each girl on stage had a confetti canon. Of course that was a lot of on the stage so the only reasonable thing to do is to make confetti angels.

That video was taken exactly a week before Charli was born!

Just a little warm up for Alumni class.

A little Pitch Perfect..

Flashback Friday

Cheers to this year and the wonderful routines, girls and staff at Dance Image! 

60 years here we come..

The Last Dance

Where am I suppose to start?!

This dance year has been so fun, challenging & wonderful. Its so nice to see the hard work pay off and the improvement at the end of the year from each girl. Its also funny to sit back and just see them dance because they love too!

Yesterday was our Senior Recital at Roy High. Both recitals were great, I love seeing these girls go out with such confidence and when they walk off the stage they know that they did it perfectly.

The theme of the recitals this year was Broadway! We of course had our production number the Boys of Broadway. Newsies, West Side Story & Chimney Sweeps. As long as those productions take to clean, teach and come up with its so nice to see the end where everything just works! Lisa works her tail off to get those to be so fabulous!

Our taps were from broadway shows as well. Sadly, our competition routines weren't because we had to do what the competitions needed & we had picked songs a long long time ago.

Speaking of music I am hoping to find something as good as we did this year, on to the next year in a week.. go figure.

Alumni class finished last night as well we did great with our four dances. We had our Army Hip Hop, Edge of 17 (jazz), Say Something (lyrical) and our Pirate tap!
I love being able to still be challenged by these dances and be able to still dance with such amazing girls. Some monday nights our practices go so long & we sometimes wonder if we will ever really get the steps in Tap but I honestly think we rocked it!

I am so happy that I get to be around such awesome people! Teachers, students, friends, owners etc. Dance Image really is the place to be.

Its not really the Last Dance but Dance Image Studios Competition Team 2014 has officially proved that they have the POWER!

Love you girls so much!